Lorna Baldwin

About

Lorna Baldwin is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer at PBS News. In her time at the News Hour, Baldwin has crisscrossed the U.S. reporting on issues ranging from the water crisis in Flint, Michigan to tsunami preparedness in the Pacific Northwest to the politics of poverty on the campaign trail in North Carolina. She conceived, researched and oversaw a 5-part series on the world's burgeoning plastic problem, which was awarded the distinguished Peabody Award. She later expanded the series for PBS, turning it into an hour-long primetime documentary, "The Plastic Problem". Baldwin also produced an investigative series on sexual harassment, abuse and retaliation within the U.S. Forest Service, reporting which led to congressional oversight hearings and the resignation of the chief of the Forest Service. That work also earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast.Farther afield, Baldwin reported on the problem of sea turtle egg poaching in Costa Rica, the distinctive architecture of Rotterdam, the Netherlands and world renowned landscape artist, Piet Oudolf. Baldwin has also has produced newsmaker interviews with President Jimmy Carter, President Bill Clinton, billionaire philanthropist Warren Buffett and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, among others.In addition, Baldwin edits her own feature pieces.